hackula (May 14, 2008 at 10:59 pm)

Nothing like this will ever happen again at Austin Peay until Dave Loos retires as the coach. His boring, slow, predictable style of play works well when the competition is similar - like in the OVC - but when matched against bigger, stronger, faster opponents, it just plays into the opponents' hands.Just look at the 8 straight years of Bubba Wells and Trenton Hassell that were wasted under the Loos' tenure. How do you have 8 straight years of NBA talent and not create an OVC dynasty?!

iamabartig (March 30, 2008 at 10:13 pm)

That was one reason the upset was so huge, the "Flying Illini" roster included Ken Norman (19th pick in the NBA draft), Kendall Gill (the 5th pick), Nick Anderson (the 11th pick. The roster also included two other NBA picks, Kenny Battle (the 27th pick) & Marcus Liberty (the 49th pick) that did not play but were part of the "payback game" that APSU played at Illinois the next season. Illinois beat us 100-62, that was not fun to watch for a bunch of us that made that road trip.

iamabartig (March 30, 2008 at 6:15 pm)

1987 MURFREESBORO, TENNESSEEFirst Round#2 Akron 103, #7 Youngstown State 74#3 Eastern Kentucky 89, #6 Murray State 75#4 Austin Peay 78, #5 Morehead State 76SemifinalsEastern Kentucky 94, Akron 85Austin Peay 87, #1 Middle Tennessee 83ChampionshipAustin Peay 71, Eastern Kentucky 68

iamabartig (March 30, 2008 at 6:13 pm)

These were the glory years for OVC basketball, AP's magical run in 1987 of course was the best. APSU made the finals of the OVC tourney the next two seasons also but lost to Murray and then MTSU. AP's upset was the 1st of 3 in a row for the OVC. Murray (14 seed) upset 3 seed NC State 78-75 in 1988, then losing to 6 seed Kansas 61-58 (Kansas won it all). In 1989 MTSU (13 seed) beat 4 seed Florida State 97-83 and the lost to 5 seed Virginia 104-88. The OVC is o-fer in the NCAA' since then.

iamabartig (March 30, 2008 at 6:01 pm)

AP had a great run in the OVC, first at the Dunn center, one of the greatest 2nd half comebacks ever to advance. We beat EKU in the final, 71-68 on that shot by Richie. It was awesome to rush the court after that win, especially with the MTSU fans cheering on Eastern KY. Darryl "Bedrock" Bedford was the Tourney MVP. Our upset of Illinois was huge and as mentioned still one of the top 10 upsets in NCAA history. We then lost 90-87 in OT to Providence.

iamabartig (March 30, 2008 at 5:39 pm)

You are correct, the Peay should have won that game. My lasting memory is of Billy "The Kid" Donovan of Rick Pitino's Providence team knocking away a Peay player to hit the go ahead 3 pointer, a foul for sure in my mind.

dpate23 (March 29, 2008 at 1:12 am)

Big 10 was amazing that year..a 1 seed, 2 2 seeds and a 3

spudsaekdb (March 19, 2008 at 3:36 am)

What's up Boots?!!!! How's the family?

TRIBEBASKETBALL (March 19, 2008 at 12:24 am)

I am sitting next to him in the video above.

TRIBEBASKETBALL (March 19, 2008 at 12:21 am)

I was Kent's roomate.